Polish actors hired to stand in iPhone lines (1)
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Jak sie masz! Polish carrier Orange has resorted to hiring Polish actors to stand in line at the Era stores in order to drum up interest in Cupertino’s folly. In an effort to DRAW attention to the iPhone, Orange admitted to creating fake buzz. “We have these fake queues at front of 20 stores around the country to drum up interest in the iPhone,” a spokesman said. There are no lines at Era stores, another ...
Researchers Build Malicious Facebook App (13)
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Researchers at Foundation for Research and Technology in Heraklion, Greece - that hotbed of Facebook research - have created a small Facebook application that causes a DDOS on a certain website. The application masquerades as a “picture of the day” app and shows an image from National Geographic. When someone clicks on it, however, it makes a request to a victim’s website, ultimately pulling down about 248 gigabytes of malicious data a day and essentially ...
Election ‘08 for iPhone Offers Up-to-the-minute Political Info (14)
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After so long in gestation, the 2008 election season has actually kind of snuck up on me. And what with the App store being released, I thought there would be a ton of politically-orientated apps out there. Incredibly, there are virtually none, and certainly none this cool. You can track polls, electoral vote estimates and so on based on live data, and organize it by state, candidate, percentage and all that. It even has historical ...
Comcast’s Fancast Offers Downloads… For a Price (4)
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Comcast has now jumped into the downloadable video content game with the Fancast Store. It’s a lot like many other video download stores in that you can either rent or buy movies and TV shows, it requires you to install proprietary media management software in order to download and view your content, and it’s not Mac compatible (you can, however, order content from a Mac and download it on a PC later). Purchasing content allows ...
Chrome Coming to Android (36)
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The browser-bearing world was atwitter yesterday with the announcement of Google’s Chrome browser. Just about overnight, they’ve managed to convince hordes of people that Chrome is the way to browse on your PC. Next step? They’re taking it mobile. According to an interview with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the two projects will start working together more closely now that both are approached 1.0 releases, with the Android browser adopting much of Chrome’s inner workings. He ...
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Now this could be a game-changer - a good, component-based mobile browser.
iPhone Data Outage in the Northeast (5)
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Are you feeling it? We’ve seen reports of just data and we’re waiting to hear back from AT&T. CrunchGear’s Peter Ha is not getting any data over 3G or EDGE while I am. Who knows. Quoth AT&T: “We are aware of the reports, and we are looking into it.” What does this mean? No email, web, or maps for iPhone users and potential problems for Blackberry email. Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered ...
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Vishal said:
this is exactly what i thought, since AT&T just added user and did not scale their network
Nokia’s Comes With Music Launches in UK Next Month (2)
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Nokia’s Comes With Music will launch in the UK next month, before spreading to the Continent and to Asia next year. Comes With Music, you may remember, is Nokia’s scheme to include music from the top record companies (less EMI, for now) with its cellphones, slowly getting the company into the Apple-dominated music business. Nokia has not given any specific price points for Comes With Music Cellphones, but said that pay-as-you-go consumers had indicated to ...
DIY toy train rails: It’s probably worth a try (1)
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If you have kids or have seen kids, you’ll know kids like them some toy train rails. Three companies are selling bits specifically designed to create tracks that are compatible with Thomas the Tank Engine sets. The original tracks and toys are amazingly and disgustingly expensive but obviously building your own could cost you more in heartache and pain than going to Toys’r'Us ever could. Toolmonger has links to each manufacturer although they recommend using ...
AT&T launches new 3G dongle (1)
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The AT&T USBConnect Mercury is a 1.7Mbps U.S.B. dongle that works with Windows and Macs and is completely 3G HSPA compatible. The dongle will be free with a 2-year $60/month or more data plan. The basic 5GB domestic plan costs $60 for US customers. Customers traveling outside the U.S. can choose one of AT&T’s DataConnect North America or DataConnect Global plans. The DataConnect North America plan includes 100 megabytes (MB) of monthly data use in ...
And… new iPods = official (3)
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This just hit my inbox. I guess all of our hard-won speculation will soon pay off.
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I think I'm getting a new Mac next week so maybe I'll grab a new iPod at the same time.
IFA 2008: The Coffee Shop of the Future (9)
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In the Home Appliances section of IFA 2008 in Berlin there are dozens of brands of coffee makers, most doling out freshly-brewed joe to bleary-eyed conventioneers. Interestingly enough, some of the companies are using cool interactive displays, much like Microsoft Surface, in an effort to catch our attention. A video on CrunchGear demonstrates one of the larger of such displays. A small pad on the bottom of the coffee cup contains an icon which a ...
Win a copy of Ilium Software’s eWallet (3)
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The kind folks at Ilium Software are offering ten free copies of eWallet to ten lucky readers. eWallet lets you secure your personal information in a single file which can be accessed on your mobile device. Whether its PIN numbers, bank account information, passwords, or credit card numbers, the vast majority of us have an ever-expanding amount of confidential information that we need to keep secure and conveniently accessible on our fingertips. eWallet 6.0 allows ...
Windows Mobile’s SkyMarket promises online Microsoft App Store (2)
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Nortel tests LTE 4G wireless at 60 mph (1)
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Note the BS The biggest issue with 4G networks is handover. When you’re speeding down the highway, your cellphone and wireless devices constantly hop from station to station, picking up connectivity as you go along. In a perfect world, this handover is seamless but, as we all know, in the real world it isn’t poifect. Nortel just tested their LTE standard with vehicles moving between coverage sites at about 60 miles an hour, a fairly ...
Adam Savage of Mythbusters on Discover’s shut-down of RFID segment (10)
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Adam Savage of Mythbusters basically busted the myth of RFID security - and the Discovery Channel wouldn’t air the segment. Here he talks at the HOPE conference about the experience.
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Tipster: T-Mobile G1 coming October 23rd (2)
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An anonymous tipster has confirmed that a major T-Mobile press conferences is scheduled for October 23 in LA or NYC in anticipation of a full G1 launch. That’s right, folks: the Android phone is coming. To recap, the G1 is a rebadged HTC Dream from T-Mobile. We have full coverage here but we know the following: First off, that “chin” that’s got everyone talking is allegedly called a “kicktail” and the slide mechanism is considered ...
TrojanToWorm makes being a douche easy! (1)
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Hey, script kiddies, need to make your l33t logic bomb into a l33t3r worm? Try TrojanToWorm. This is basically a worm construction that allows you to deploy a payload that will launch itself at a preset time. It’s a fairly complex little piece of code that is probably easy to catch with a virus scanner, but knowing the average user will be oblivious to its existence and power expect it to hit at least a ...
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